About Visithra
Visithra Manikam is a self-taught Malaysian woman visual artist and photographer from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Based in Malaysia, she credits NFTs for introducing her art to a wider global audience and opportunities. Through NFT platforms, her art began to be collected globally including by prominent digital art collectors such as Cozomo De Medici (The Medici Collection). Signore Cozomo, who recently donated the largest collection of blockchain artwork to LACMA. Today, her art is in the hands of multiple collectors worldwide.
Her art delves into the intricate complexities of human behaviour and the profound experiences that shape our lives. She explores them visually using psychology, eastern philosophy and symbolism. Her art explores and visualises pressing issues such as racism, colorism, feminism, politics, and social concerns to ignite conversations. As a minority in Malaysia, she visualises her community's discrimination through art.
In 2024, she will have her first international solo and museum solo in Cica Museum, Seoul.
She was the first Malaysian visual artist to be featured on Times Square, New York Billboards in 2022.
Her art was featured on the coveted annual Medici Collection exhibition in Times Square, New York billboards* in 2022 and 2023. She was also selected to be featured on NFT NYC Times Square exhibition billboards in 2022 (One Time Square) and 2023 (Nasdaq).
She paints with traditional tools like acrylic on canvas and clay sculptures, as well as digital tools to create illustrations, glitch art and animations, creating both expressionism and pop art.
She was onboarded to Superrare - becoming the first Malaysian woman artist to be accepted.
Her digital art was exhibited at the first NFT physical Museum in the world in Seattle in 2022, as well as exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Cochin (India), Liverpool, UK, Dubai and Tokyo.
While her acrylic paintings have been exhibited in multiple cities around the world including Osaka, Japan; Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Seoul, South Korea and multiple cities in India and more.
Her photography has been featured in Asian GEO, Reuters and she was one of the Honorable Mention winners in PX3, Paris Photography competition in 2016.
She was also a speaker at NFT NYC 2022. She was named one of Asia’s Most Influential in 2022 by Tatler Asia.
*Billboards are unique exhibition platforms in the NFT community as the screens are optimal for large scale digital art.
She is also known as vissyarts.
Superrare - Visithra
Opensea: Visithra
Opensea - Vissyuga
Opensea - Vissy
Opensea: Letters from Visithra
Objkt - Visithra
Async Art: Visithra
Knownorigin: Visithra
Foundation: @visithra
Etsy Vissyarts
Vimeo Vissyarts
Photography exhibitions and awards
You can view her virtual art galleries of her art and the art she has collected at On Cyber.
Timessquare, New York , June 2022